Capital Campaign
THE BERKELEY >>TOMORROW CAPITAL CAMPAIGN EXCEEDED ITS GOAL by $1.8 MILLION
A Campaign for Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
The Berkeley>>Tomorrow capital campaign was launched in 2004 by the Board of Trustees in conjunction with Yale Divinity School and Yale University, and was completed on June 30, 2011. It was strategically designed to provide support for academic programs that form students who will be the priests and lay leaders of tomorrow -- cultivating the type of “pastoral imagination” they will need to meet the challenges of bringing Christ to a complex world.
With a goal of $8 million, the campaign exceeded this amount by raising a total of $9.8 million towards:
A. INTENTIONAL LEADERSHIP FORMATION
B. ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT
C. INNOVATIVE NEW PROGRAMS FOR TOMORROW'S CHURCH:
- Educational Leadership and Ministry
- Urban Ministry
- Religion and Environmental Stewardship
- Global Engagement
BERKELEY'S ONGOING CAPITAL NEEDS
As we celebrate the successful completion of the Berkeley>>Tomorrow Campaign, we must also address Berkeley's continuing urgent capital needs:
Educational Leadership and Ministry (ELM)
Berkeley has been a leader in providing chaplains and educators for schools, colleges and universities, and in 2008 launched the first seminary program at the master's degree level to prepare students for this ministry. Initial grants have enabled ELM to thrive under the leadership of Tony Jarvis, but we must now provide for its future by endowing it. The cost of that will be $3.3 million, plus a scholarship endowment of $1 million.
The Porter Chair in Religion and Ecology
The Porter Foundation has pledged a gift toward a $3 million endowment to support the H. Boone and Violet M. Porter Chair in Religion and Environmental Stewardship as part of a joint degree program with Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. $1.5 million remains to be committed.
The Berkeley Center and Program Endowment
To name the Berkeley Center and to provide for its programs in Anglican formation, we need $1 million in new endowment.
Global Engagement
We believe that theological education must now include mission and study trips throughout the Anglican Communion. In order to support such trips -- and thereby encourage a passion for mission among our students -- we need a fund of at least $500,000.
Unrestricted Endowment and Scholarships
Berkeley operates on a shoestring and needs continuing capital gifts for unrestricted endowment and for scholarships in order to attract the most talented students for future leadership in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion.